Ready for Romneycare?
In any case, I confess to being not quite as taken with Sara Palin the candidate as a lot of FReepers. I love her politics, and I admire her tremendously as a person and as a Christian. I just wouldn't vote for her as a president. I think that McCain might have won had he chosen Romeny as his VP and the election became about the economy in October. I'm not sure that would have been the best thing for the country however, and there's where people like Sara Palin (especially Sara Palin) can do the most good: Galvanizing Republican voters to pick and honest conservative candidate.
I posted this because liberals like Saltonstall (and his made up unnamed McCain source) just don't get it. They sort of get it, because they recognize how dangerous Palin is a lot better than most Republicans seem to. Right now she's on Oprah, and a lot of other mainstream programming. She comes across as a very regular American who just happens to be charasmatic and attractive. She IS going to draw a lot of the middle into her camp. And when there aren't enough of them to get her the nomination, the winner is still going to need to appease the Palin voters. And creeps like Saltonstall who condescend to a woman who has already accomplished more in a single lifetime than they could hope for in a thousand just end up making undecideds sympathize with Palin, and take a second look at her. Obnoxious liberals end up looking like bullies with nothing to back it up. Anyway, that's the way I see it.
For what it's worth, the new improved web headline is "Sarah Palin in 'Going Rogue': John McCain camp set me up for disaster in Katie Couric interviews." The editors probably like that one better because it plays up Republican in-fighting and plays down any sypathy for Palin.
In addition, Sarah should have known better about Katie Couric.
Like the bumper sticker says "Don't blame me I voted for Sarah".
The big question: With Palin firing back at McCain operatives, is she igniting a NY-23 fight on a national level?
I think Steve Schmindt, Nicole Wallace, Mark Salter, and John Weaver should join the Dems.
Palin clearly outshined McCain in Minnesota at the convention at it got to his people. It must have bothered McCain that she was getting far more people and attention at her ralies than he was. I’m willing to cut her some slack if she was lied to about Katie Couric as it’s clear to me she was. All i Know is it will drive liberals beyond insane that her book sales will cruch anything any liberal puts out this year.
Well I voted for Palin. McCain just happen to be on the ticket. I will vote and even work for her again.
I respect your opinions, and applaud your thoughtful comments. I’m “rogue” enough to want to think Sarah Palin would make a great President, because I feel that (as was the case with Reagan) the job is more about who you are as a person than whether you’re the greatest policy wonk or historian, orator, etc.
But time will tell. It will be interesting to review this thread in one year and see how our opinions may have changed.
Note to anyone..., Always assume that any reporter will use your interview to THEIR advantage! That said, EVEN IF the reporter is "friendly"..., their editor may not be!
Palin should have been more alert to this. Relying upon McCain's staff was obviously a mistake.
As a side note, often "your" media handlers are rather naive themselves..., trust your gut and give the message that YOU want to give, not what you "think" may make it through the editor's office!
Ready for Romneycare?
I wonder when Palin knew McCain had already given the Presidency to Obama.
I respect your opinion but absolutely do not agree that McCain could have won under any circumstances. He had about as much chance as Dole and his inexplicable endorsements of Obama as not being a dangerous inexperienced radical showed he had no stomach for the fight and in fact was afraid of being called a racist. Without Palin he would have lost in a landslide and Romney never could have drawn any passion from the base or from independents.
Is this a joke? She was “blindsided” by that “devastating” interview? Set up? Please. Most of the posters on this board could have knocked those questions out of the park. I agree that the media was biased against her and inappropriately nasty and intrusive while they gave Obama a pass but that was an exceedingly poor performance. Pitiful actually.
Please don’t compare her to Reagan, she’s not close.
Gutless wonder didn't want to be named. Figures.
I disagree about Romney. What could Romney have done when it was the BUSH administration that was pushing the panic button? McCain’s mistake, as we all know, was pretending that he could make a difference at the Washington conflab, when he had nothing. Obama was smart enough to keep his mouth shut and go along on the ride. This persuaded a lot of people that he was”reliable,” rather than the radical he has shown himself to be.
Nicolle Wallace was a self-absorbed fool who miserably failed in her job by accepting at face value the gratuitous pandering of Couric who is known as spiteful, contempuous individual.
That, my fiends, is Sarah Palin. She is the real McCoy, she is "True Grit."
She can win, and that's why Ronald Reagan is smiling. That's why the dummycrats are trying so hard to destroy her.
McCain would have won had he chosen Romney? OMG! Hahahahahaa. Truly delusional.
Well in that case, there's no problem releasing the complete unedited tapes, .....is there Ms. Couric? ......Katie? ..........why are you running out the door, Katie?
If Mitt was a VP candidate, the McCain rallys would have taken place on a street corner under a street light.